More Subway Stations in Manhattan, Bronx in Line to Get Online

[Union Tpke]

More Subway Stations in Manhattan, Bronx in Line to Get Online

Can you hear me now?
For thousands of New York City Transit subway customers in Upper and Lower Manhattan, the answer is yes.

Transit Wireless recently wired its 100^thunderground subway station as part of Phase III of MTA’s plan to bring connectivity to all 277 underground subway stations by 2017, allowing customers to use their cell phones and Wi-Fi at major stations such as  Flushing-Main St, the new  Fulton St transit hub, 125 St and the  Delancey St-Essex St station complex. The current phase of the project encompasses 39 stations that together serve more than 12 million monthly customers.

Transit Wireless also is beginning the network buildout for Phase IV, which will include 20 underground stations in the Bronx and 17 more stations in Upper Manhattan. Those locations include transfer stations such as ®Lexington Av/59 St,  125 St and 245 149 St-Grand Concourse. By the end of 2015, NYCT subway customers will have cell phone service and Wi-Fi connectivity in underground subway stations throughout Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. 

The service network allows customers to make E911 calls when needed and gives MTA employees and first responders the ability to communicate quicker and more efficiently during emergencies. It also allows customers to stay in touch with family, friends and businesses.

"The MTA has been on a clearly defined mission to improve our mass transit system with upgrades to the station environment through several ambitious new-technology communications projects like this one, aimed at improving the travel experiences of our customers while offering another level of security," said MTA Chairman and CEO Thomas F. Prendergast.

MTA expects all seven phases of the connectivity project to be complete by 2017. The first two phases included stations in Midtown Manhattan and all underground stations in Queens with the exception of the  Main St terminal.

Underground cell phone service is made possible through a partnership with the nation’s four largest mobile carriers: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, and Verizon Wireless. Customers with Wi-Fi capability on their smartphones and mobile devices can access the “Transit Wireless WiFi” network, which is free through a sponsorship with CityBuzz.

 

[Orion VII 4 Life]

The cell service at Fulton still don't work! Just wifi... Lies. And I was at 125th-8th the other day and don't think I had service.

[Via Garibaldi 8]

The cell service at Fulton still don't work! Just wifi... Lies. And I was at 125th-8th the other day and don't think I had service.

That Fulton Center doesn't look like a 1 billion dollar station.  I've used it twice now when visiting a client Downtown, and wasn't impressed.  The only good thing about it is that it's easy to get to the platform.

[Cait Sith]

The cell service at Fulton still don't work! Just wifi... Lies. And I was at 125th-8th the other day and don't think I had service.

 

There's a hint of signal at the (4)/(5) platform, but that's just about it. I don't think 103rd and up along the CPW has cell service.

[Orion VII 4 Life]

There's a hint of signal at the (4)/(5) platform, but that's just about it. I don't think 103rd and up along the CPW has cell service.

Always has been there.

 

That Fulton Center doesn't look like a 1 billion dollar station.  I've used it twice now when visiting a client Downtown, and wasn't impressed.  The only good thing about it is that it's easy to get to the platform.

It's pretty nice but overhyped... I never really walk through it unless I'm going to the uptown platform. I use the or daily and enter further up Fulton for that and if I'm getting off or going to the downtown I use the entrance across Broadway.

[Via Garibaldi 8]

Always has been there.

 

It's pretty nice but overhyped... I never really walk through it unless I'm going to the uptown platform. I use the or daily and enter further up Fulton for that and if I'm getting off or going to the downtown I use the entrance across Broadway.

They seem to be giving tours now. I saw a bunch of foreigners (didn't look to see if they were Europeans or just out-of-towners) looking all around as some guy was talking about the features of the station.  One thing that is annoying is that there only seems to be one down escalator and it isn't easily accessible.  I had some things on a cart with me that made taking the stairs a real pain, so I was annoyed when I couldn't immediately get the first escalator I saw and go down.

[MTA Dude]

Great. They are gonna send out some celluar service that won't work. Next step, celluar service on the train! How? By throwing a lasso of wires down the tunnel and call it a day.

[QM1to6Ave]

I was up at 181st on the A late at night last week and saw a contractor working on some cables and wires, which he said were part of this wifi and cell service plan

[Via Garibaldi 8]

I was up at 181st on the A late at night last week and saw a contractor working on some cables and wires, which he said were part of this wifi and cell service plan

181st eh... If you wanted to see "progress", you should've walked over to the 181st street station on the line.  Probably still covered in scaffolding and filthy as ever.

[QM1to6Ave]

181st eh... If you wanted to see "progress", you should've walked over to the 181st street station on the line.  Probably still covered in scaffolding and filthy as ever.

Lol. Yeah, I avoid the 1 stations above 96th street like the plague. I'm not one to normally get claustrophobic, but those stations feel so tight and restrictive and disgusting

[N6 Limited]

When was the Broadway - Nassau station renamed Fulton Street? It's just odd that a line that runs under Fulton Street in Brooklyn has the first station out of Brooklyn named "Fulton St". I wondered if that has ever confused anyone.

[bobtehpanda]

That Fulton Center doesn't look like a 1 billion dollar station.  I've used it twice now when visiting a client Downtown, and wasn't impressed.  The only good thing about it is that it's easy to get to the platform.

 

Most of the cost was property acquisition and making the maze of Fulton St more navigable, which it is.

When was the Broadway - Nassau station renamed Fulton Street? It's just odd that a line that runs under Fulton Street in Brooklyn has the first station out of Brooklyn named "Fulton St". I wondered if that has ever confused anyone.

 

None of the stations in Brooklyn on the are called Fulton St, and quite frankly if you are mixing up destinations in completely different boroughs, you have bigger issues on your hands...

 

I once got asked by a tourist on the Times Sq platform how to get to Manhattan, so all sorts of stupid questions are possible.

[Fresh Pond]

When was the Broadway - Nassau station renamed Fulton Street? It's just odd that a line that runs under Fulton Street in Brooklyn has the first station out of Brooklyn named "Fulton St". I wondered if that has ever confused anyone.

They renamed it around the time they started the renovations of the platform to match the rest of the complex. I highly doubt it confuses anyone since there's only 1 other station in the system that has the same name.

 

Plus it also runs under Fulton St Manhattan for that one stop

[N6 Limited]

Most of the cost was property acquisition and making the maze of Fulton St more navigable, which it is.

 

 

None of the stations in Brooklyn on the are called Fulton St, and quite frankly if you are mixing up destinations in completely different boroughs, you have bigger issues on your hands...

 

I once got asked by a tourist on the Times Sq platform how to get to Manhattan, so all sorts of stupid questions are possible.

 

 

They renamed it around the time they started the renovations of the platform to match the rest of the complex. I highly doubt it confuses anyone since there's only 1 other station in the system that has the same name.

 

Plus it also runs under Fulton St Manhattan for that one stop

I'm thinking more along the lines that someone in midtown/uptown wants to go to "Fulton St" in Brooklyn, then they arrive at "Fulton St" station they think they're there and get off the train.

[MTA Dude]

None of the stations in Brooklyn on the are called Fulton St, and quite frankly if you are mixing up destinations in completely different boroughs, you have bigger issues on your hands...

 

I once got asked by a tourist on the Times Sq platform how to get to Manhattan, so all sorts of stupid questions are possible.

 

Wow, ROFL!